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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait to hear those conservative rantings until the day they're available in Lamont, go ahead and pay $20. After all, their editor will "hand-deliver your Salient issues to your dorm before the staff sees them, and even sent you a birthday card!" Yes, pay that $20--especially if you live in Cabot House, Peabody Terrace, Apley Court, the Business School, Botanical Gardens, the Law School...
...ramdomizing the Houses, I think the College and students are overlooking an important obstacle in achieving any sort of meaningful diversity in the Houses: architecture. The old river houses were all designed in a different era to suit a different population of Harvard students. Unlike more typically collegiate dorm-type houses, such as Currier and Mather, they do not lend themselves to students' mingling. The entryway system makes for atomization and isolation between different groups of students. Just from talking to people I know from my house (Eliot) and other houses, many people don't even know people in their...
Furthermore, the newer houses are also equipped with the facilities one would expect from a college dorm, creating hang-out spots where different people can mix. Such spots are rare in most river houses...
...night in Vancouver, I returned to my dorm and turned on a baseball game in our floor's common room. A guy I knew from down the hall was just leaving; he told me he'd left a few beers in the fridge after a party, and I was welcome to them. I sat and listened. The cold Kokanee Lager cooed to me lovingly, while legions of health teachers screamed back a volley of catcalls. "Don't drink alone!" they shrieked. I didn...
When I was at Barnard, we had a protest of our own when the Columbia Spectator reported that Barnard student, unable to contact her off campus psychiatrist, confided to a health services therapist that she was suicidal. She was promptly suspended and asked to leave her dorm. Now, I don't think her "special needs" were attended to well at all, do you? The debate became quite heated. The offcampus psychiatrist told Barnard that suspending his patient would make her situation much, much worse and asked them to take her back. The college maintained its position believing, I think that...